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ruby
ruby is a 4-letter English word with 11 senses as noun, adjective, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging to violet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a red crystallized variety of corundum.
- 2noun
The color of a ruby; carmine red; a red tint.
- 3noun
That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle.
- 4noun
See Agate., 2.
- 5noun
Any species of South American humming birds of the genus Clytolaema. The males have a ruby-colored throat or breast.
- 6adjective
Ruby-colored; red; as, ruby lips.
- 7transitive verb
To make red; to redden.
- 8noun
a deep and vivid red color
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- 9noun
a transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
- 10noun
a transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a gemstone and in lasers
- 11adjective
of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
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